Friday, January 09, 2009

FDR Jr, at the podium...

...was telling us that we faced an "unprecedented" crisis in our nation, which no doubt made elementary school history teachers cry.

Then he said that the "wait-and-see" approach hadn't worked. Apparently "wait-and-see" is where you make stupid regulations for things you know nothing about, and throw borrowed imaginary money at irresponsible people in numbers that make astronomers twitch.

So now we're going to try his way, which is where you make stupid regulations for things you know nothing about, and throw borrowed imaginary money at irresponsible people in numbers that make astronomers twitch.

Perhaps they're taking a statistical view. If they throw enough money at enough people, sooner or later they're bound to hit one that's responsible.

Likewise, if an infinite number of congresscritters write an infinite number of laws, at least a few are guaranteed to be sane, responsible regulations which further the good of the people without burdening them with an ever-growing state. Those will die in committee, of course.